Strategic Board Advisory
Equip finance leaders with sharper capital allocation, governance, and growth decision-making through board-level advisory grounded in real transaction and transformation experience.
Build stronger finance leadership with a program designed to sharpen strategic judgment, capital allocation thinking, M&A readiness, and post-deal value creation. Transjovan Capital brings board-level advisory depth, cross-border transaction experience, and practical corporate development insight to help finance leaders make better decisions, lead transformation, and drive measurable enterprise value.
Structured advisory-led development solutions for finance leaders navigating growth, transactions, and enterprise transformation.
Equip finance leaders with sharper capital allocation, governance, and growth decision-making through board-level advisory grounded in real transaction and transformation experience.
Develop practical leadership capability across M&A, divestitures, joint ventures, and growth strategy with embedded support tailored to acquisitive and high-growth enterprises.
Strengthen finance leadership through structured support for portfolio reviews, multi-deal pipeline management, and joint venture evaluation and integration planning.
Build end-to-end acquisition leadership skills across target screening, valuation, diligence, negotiation support, and Day-1 planning for strategic growth initiatives.
Help finance leaders manage integration workstreams, synergy tracking, and board-ready reporting so post-deal value is captured with discipline and visibility.
Support finance leaders in evaluating expansion funding, strategic capital options, and growth platforms that align with long-term enterprise objectives.
The Finance Leadership Development Program helps organizations strengthen decision-making where finance, strategy, and execution meet. Rather than focusing only on theory, Transjovan Capital brings practical insight from boardrooms, acquisitions, integrations, and capital allocation decisions. The result is a more capable finance leadership bench prepared to evaluate opportunities, manage complexity, and create measurable value across the business lifecycle.
Our program is shaped by real-world finance, strategy, and transaction leadership experience.
Senior advisors stay closely involved, bringing practical judgment from complex mandates and board-level engagements.
Ex-CEOs, CFOs, board members, and M&A specialists provide well-rounded leadership development perspectives.
Experience across the US, Europe, India, and APAC supports broader strategic and cross-border leadership capability.
Programs emphasize synergy capture, capital discipline, and measurable outcomes instead of activity alone.
Experienced advisors with deep finance and strategy backgrounds.
Managing Partner
Gaurav Asthana is the Managing Partner at Transjovan Capital and brings more than 21 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. An ex-Ernst & Young and KPMG professional, he is widely recognized for cross-border M&A execution across four continents. He has advised Fortune 500 corporations, large conglomerates, and private equity funds on cumulative transactions worth USD 15 billion. His experience includes retained buy-side mandates for globally recognized enterprises such as Blackstone, Mahindra, Legrand, Altana, Sumitomo, and Cummins. Under his leadership, the firm earned recognition as the Best M&A Advisory Firm in India. He also serves in prominent industry bodies including the Indo-American, Indo-French, and Indo-German Chambers of Commerce, reflecting his strong global business network.
Head - Consumer
Deoki Muchhal is a strategist and advisor with extensive leadership experience across large multinational organizations. Having served as MD and CFO at Cargill India, he has led acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and technology transformation initiatives designed to unlock long-term enterprise value. His background includes board-level exposure, corporate restructuring, turnaround strategy, and successful merger integration. Deoki brings a practical operator's perspective to strategic advisory, helping clients align financial, operational, and transformation priorities. He also has a strong interest in ventures that improve competitiveness through digital technologies. A meritorious Chartered Accountant and alumnus of a Fortune 50 high-performance leadership academy, he adds seasoned financial and strategic judgment to complex growth and transaction mandates.
Head – Financial Services
Rajesh Relan brings 37 years of experience, including 25 years in senior leadership roles across the insurance industry in India and the Asia Pacific region. He previously served as Managing Director of PNB MetLife India Insurance and has deep expertise in strategy, governance, financial planning, business transformation, and M&A. His career includes launching and scaling businesses, leading turnarounds, and executing acquisitions, including the purchase of an insurance broking company. Rajesh also serves as an independent director on boards of publicly listed companies, including Singer India Ltd. and Jaykay Enterprises. His involvement with industry bodies such as CII, FICCI, Amcham, and USIBC reflects broad market engagement. He contributes seasoned boardroom insight to strategic growth and transaction advisory assignments.
Head – IT Services
Anuraag Guptaa has 27 years of experience in IT services spanning BFSI, consulting, professional services, and BPO. He has held CEO and board-level roles at organizations including First Meridian, Quess Corp, Capgemini, and Gulf Bank. At Quess Corp, he helped build India's largest technology staffing firm, culminating in a 2016 IPO at a valuation of USD 2 billion. His strengths include operational transformation, P&L leadership, greenfield venture incubation, organizational restructuring, and navigating complex M&A environments. Anuraag also mentors and invests in niche startups, bringing a growth-oriented perspective to advisory work. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and holds an MBA from LSE, NYU Stern, and HEC Paris, along with Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification from GE.
Senior Advisor
Chetan Tolia brings more than 30 years of leadership experience across major industrial organizations. He has served as a director on the boards of 10 Tata companies and was CEO and Executive Director of WREPL, a Tata Power company in the renewables business. His background also includes serving as Chief HR Officer of Tata Power, CEO of Tata BlueScope Steel Limited, and head of Strategy & Planning at Tata Steel. He played a key role in forming the BlueScope Steel and Tata Steel joint venture and in shaping growth strategy for large industrial businesses. With deep exposure to strategy, joint ventures, board governance, and industrial operations, Chetan adds valuable manufacturing and infrastructure insight to enterprise advisory engagements.
Senior Advisor
A corporate development program is a structured initiative that builds an organization's capability in growth strategy, capital allocation, M&A, divestitures, partnerships, and post-deal value creation. In a finance leadership context, it helps leaders evaluate opportunities, manage transactions, support board decisions, and improve execution discipline across the full business lifecycle.
Speak with our advisors about your leadership development goals.
Recognized in India for 2024 excellence.
Longstanding advisory experience since 2011.
Serving enterprises across four continents.
Share your goals and our team will help you explore the right advisory-led development approach for your organization.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 1800 102 5700. You can also send us a quick email at info@transjovancap.com.
For immediate assistance, feel free to give us a direct call at 1800 102 5700. You can also send us a quick email at info@transjovancap.com.